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acabylon 👻 BOO! 👻 @acabylonbee.bsky.social · 9h

protesting genocide: we need to purge antisemitism from college campuses

praising hitler and gas chambers: boys will be boys, cancel culture is out of control

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 11h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 12h

URGENT ACTION 🚨

If you do one thing for trans rights today – contact your MP about the proposed EHRC Code of Practice, which would devastate trans people's lives.

Even if you've sent a letter before, make sure you use our new tool to send another. Now is the moment to keep the pressure up 👇

Scrap the Bathroom Ban

🚨This is urgent🚨 Bridget Phillipson, the Minister for Women and Equalities, has a decision to make. The EHRC, a regulator mired in controversy over anti-trans views, has sent a new draft Code of Prac...

actionnetwork.org

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aejae.bsky.social @aejae.bsky.social · 1d

In the 1954 BBC film adaptation of 1984, pornography is produced by automatic typing machines, churning out derivative stories that are packaged & distrubuted to common people in a way to fool them into thinking they're obtaining them as a daring act of sexual freedoms.

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 1d

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1d

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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aejae.bsky.social @aejae.bsky.social · 1d

Caught a showing of Kon's Perfect Blue - hadn't seen it in decades, but better then I even remember it. There was a guy in the back of theatre holloring at each twist & impact moment and I don't think anyone could hold it against him.

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Evangelion Screenshots @ngescreenshot.bsky.social · 1d

Neon Genesis Evangelion
Episode 20
Of the Shape of Hearts and Humans
Weaving a Story 2: Oral Stage

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Mr. Cato @thestoopidcato.bsky.social · Aug 19

KEEP DRAWING!

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KOTH Screens @kothscreens.bsky.social · 2d

Screenshot from King of the Hill Season 11, Episode 2

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The Onion @theonion.com · 2d

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day

COLUMBUS DIDN'T DISCOVER ANYTHING 1,000'S OF NATIVE NATIONS WERE ALREADY HERE

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 2d

1. As some Democrats have run from transgender rights, Zohran Mamdani is showing what so many others have lacked: courage to lead with his values over pandering to focus groups.

The ad is one of the best things I've seen from a politician on transgender people.

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As Some Dems Run From Trans People, Zohran Mamdani's Latest Ad Shows Real Support

The 2 minute ad features Sylvia Rivera's story, Mamdani's commitment to transgender people, and even music from the legendary late trans artist SOPHIE.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Meredith Gran @meredithgran.com · 2d

Next Fest has begun! Please enjoy + wishlist the latest demo build of Perfect Tides: Station to Station, the coming-of-age adventure in production since 2022 - coming in January!

store.steampowered.com/app/2088810/...

Perfect Tides: Station to Station on Steam

A point n' click sequel to Perfect Tides about the momentum and whiplash of young adulthood. Explore the big city through 18-year-old Mara's eyes. Collect items, nurture ideas, and experience complex ...

store.steampowered.com

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Boo-ly, Li'l Ghost Bull 👻🐮 @bullythelsb.bsky.social · Jun 28

you have a right to be angry

Drawing of Little My, a small girl in a red dress, sliding down a hill. She is drawn by Tove Jansson from the Moomin series. The text reads: "WHEN you're angry, then you're angry," thought Little My, peeling her potato with her teeth. "Sometimes you have to be angry. Every little creature has the right to get angry."

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 3d

THIS. If a politician is willing to abandon today's Inconvenient Vulnerable Group in the name of political expedience? They'll abandon them all. And fascists will not be appeased by any of it, anyway. They just switch targets. That's how this works.

shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 3d

thinking about the liberal politicians willing to try to compromise with fascists by abandoning minority groups they don't really like - i wish they understood that fascists will come for everyone eventually. even themselves. fascism unopposed is a ruined state with everyone dead

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puff 🐇😈 @incupuff.bsky.social · Apr 27

please support ur friends making creative shit in this cruel world. u have no idea how much a kind comment can mean to an artist when every website just tries to make you focus on the numbers

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4d

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

Tom Morello tweets: "Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit."

Someone named Manny replies: "@grok
why do some people say Tom Morello and band mates are RAGE FOR THE MACHINE and not against ?"

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 4d

The message must be "No bailouts for billionaires." AI is not too big to fail. And should it fail, the richest men in the world should be held accountable and take responsibility for their failures.

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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 4d

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
October 11,1954

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER
P1- WE SEE A BURGLAR ENTERING THROUGH AN OPEN WINDOW

P2-THE BURGLAR HAS ENTERED SLUGGO’S BEDROOM WHO IS SOUND ASLEEP, THE BURGLAR SEES THE POOR LIVING CONDITIONS THAT SLUGGO IS STAYING IN.

P3- THE BURGLAR HAS COMPASSION AND EXITS OUT THE WINDOW, BUT BEFORE LEAVING HE DROPS SOME COINS IN SLUGGO’S PIGGY BANK.

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Evangelion Screenshots @ngescreenshot.bsky.social · 4d

Neon Genesis Evangelion
Episode 2
Unfamiliar Ceilings
The Beast

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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 5d

Metal Gear Solid done. Thank you to everyone that hung out and donated, it’s helping a great cause. Back tomorrow at 9AM PT to do it all again for Metal Gear Solid 2.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 4d

This is what I mean when I say, when it comes to political positions, most ppl just run on vibes. 100% feelings-before-facts. Japan is screaming towards a population crash at 1,000 MPH, it's not reversible at this point. But you have political parties agitating to return to hermit kingdom status.

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 4d

Japan’s far right is on the rise, alarming foreign workers. Nowhere is that anxiety more apparent than in the city of Toyota, where immigrants power the economy while facing political backlash.

Japan Needs Foreign Workers. Its Far Right Is Turning Against Them

In the city of Toyota, immigrants help power the economy while facing political backlash.

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aejae.bsky.social @aejae.bsky.social · 5d

Thinking about the budget kart racing and party video games we would have gotten if Kpop Demon Hunters had hit in the PS2 era.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 5d

A billion dollars is the socio-political equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work as ruthlessly and diligently to prevent the acquisition of the former as we do the latter.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 5d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 6d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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NoxyMeArt @noxyme.bsky.social · Feb 17

Couldn’t say it better myself.

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